Recent content by GopherJake

“MoJo”? Haven’t heard that one. Johansson had a decent season and is taking a $1.2 MM pay cut. He will turn 35 in October. Feels like a good deal for the Wild, if he can stay healthy. By comparison, he earned $9MM in 19-20 + 20-21 for Buffalo. Wild probably overpaid in 23-24 for 2 years x $2MM.

Kaprizov - and nobody else on the Wild, for that matter - got “run into the ground”. Our top players were not overused. Double shifting Kaprizov (and Boldy tonight) wasn’t dumb. It was smart. Very smart. I seriously question if anyone watching closely and saying these dumb-assed things ever...

I think there’s a chance we are up 3-1 right now without the Buium experiment. I’m confident he will be a great player. And I understand using him. But not on PP1. Sparingly. And I would have played Chisholm or Merril in front of him after game 1.

https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-wild/injury-updates-playoffs-eriksson-ek-johansson-game-five-lines-marco-rossi-zeev-buium/ According to this, Rossi still buried on the 4th line. Buium potentially a Game 5 healthy scratch - Merrill was at 3-D today with Bogo. E-Ek taking a...

Dang. Seems like a very good dude. Guessing he will be on-air quite a big still.

That’s an excellent ad. Wonder how much a nicely loaded model is. And how industrial strength all the interchangeable parts are. Interesting idea and innovative.

In the post-game presser, Cassidy indicated nothing had changed in that regard. I would expect Hill back in net on Saturday.

Stars of the game (unofficial): Gus Kaprizov Boldy (especially on PK!!) Honorable Mention 1: 4th line Honorable Mention 2: Faber Not really tough choices.

Garza is on a 2 year, $4.5MM deal.

Ek didn't sucker-punch anyone. The only sucker-punch was Hague to Kaprizov. Were I the refs, I would have probably assessed no penalties, but the only thing that may have warranted one, was to Hague. He didn't face wash him. He punched him. Sorry. You clearly haven't ever been involved in...

That's why I said "if". Dallas (Suter) went after him 2 years ago in the playoffs and so have other teams. There is precedence. And there is also precedence for nobody righting the wrong - to my disappointment. I would have brought a career minor leaguer up in the first meeting last season...

Uh, yeah. No. Ek didn't engage with Hague at all, so, not sure what you are talking about. Uh huh. You mean right after he got up off the ice after being sucker punched with his hands tied up by the linesman and went over and gave Hague a piece of his mind in the corner? No player has ever...

Spot on.

Vegas coach guy was not shy in the post game presser either. Not quite as frontal, but definitely singled him out. Particularly for his size, Kaprizov is one of the toughest players I've ever watched closely. He rarely takes a heavy hit and when he does, he fights through it. He wins about...